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Cooking Objectives
Nutrition Objectives
Menu Option One
Menu Option Two
Activities Description
Additional Resources

Cooking Objectives

1. Discuss safe, age-appropriate tasks for kids in the kitchen.

2. Practice using knives safely and how to properly use a knife.

3. Discuss strategies to share more meals together.

4. Practice proper hand washing.

5. Practice basic cooking practices, including personal hygiene, mise en place, getting ingredients out/reading through recipes, handling meats/washing vegetables and tasting as you go--take a little out to adjust flavors.

Knife Safety Videos (Cooking Objective 2)

Proper Handwashing (Cooking Objective 4)

Basic Cooking Practices (Cooking Objective 5)

Nutrition Objectives

1. Practice classifying foods into MyPlate food groups.

2. Understand how to use "portion" size on a label (balancing a meal using these proportions even if foods are mixed together, what veggies are higher in carbs--generally--eat color).

3. Talk about tasting and being open to trying new foods and go over acceptable ways to react to how foods taste. Set standards for class expectations.

4. Understand the benefits of cooking from scratch.

Menu Option One

Instructional Videos (5)

Menu Option Two

Instructional Videos (7)

Activities Description

Make your own salad dressing. (CMA pp. 66-67)

Additional Resources

Optional Lesson 1, Cooking Objective: Cooking Terms - Slice, Chop, Dice, Mince

Different Cuts & Chopping a Pepper